Ex Terra, Church Street is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 August 2011. Sculpture.

Ex Terra, Church Street

WRENN ID
quartered-sentry-martin
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Glenrothes and Mid Fife MP: Richard Baker (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
9 August 2011
Type
Sculpture
OS grid reference
NO 274 009
Coordinates
56.19535, -3.17025
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Ex Terra is a large figurative sculpture created by Benno Shotz in 1965. The sculpture depicts a maternal figure emerging from the ground, supporting three children, with two of them triumphantly carried on her shoulders. It is made of manganese bronze over a metal frame, and the sculptor's signature is in relief at the base. Additionally, there are abstracted figures of three further children clinging to the base of the sculpture.

Local climate

Ex Terra, Church Street receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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